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Originally Posted by ErwinOtten
It's just a standard windows thing. When you don't use the ' safely remove hardware' button the computer can still hold access to the disc and corrupt it by pulling out the cable. Don't know if it's the same under linux though.
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In Linux I think buffers are flushed after a certain time interval. It is maybe 10 seconds or so. But it is easy to write and disconnect before buffers are flushed so you should always unmount the device before removing the cable. I suppose you can get a corrupt file system if you are unlucky and one symptom might be that you cannot write to the file system. But that is easily fixed by using fsck.